Joan Miró

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Catalan-Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. His work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan and Spanish pride.

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• Lay bare the soul..painting and poetry are like love..an exchange of blood.a passionate embrace,without restraint,without defence.The picture is born..of an overflow of emotions and feelings..
  • Conversations with Georges Duthuit the French art critic 1936 ^{[specific citation needed]}

• I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
  • From : “Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews”, M.Rowell, Thames and Hudson, 1987

• To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.
  • Joan Miró, Joan Miró Foundation^{[specific citation needed]}

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• For me, a form is never something abstract; it is always...a man...a bird...or something else. For me form is never for form's sake.

• With each passing day I become more surrealist.
  • On his 80th birthday

• You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.